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Franchescanado posted:Heads up for anyone interested, the limited release run is tomorrow on January 22nd, so check your local listings to see if there's a showing near you. My theater is one night only. It's one night only over at the artsy theater by me that had the limited showing of One Cut of the Dead. As much as I want to see it on the big screen, I'll have to wait for VOD.
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Is the Director's Cut of Doctor Sleep a good first timer's introduction to the movie? I'm interested in the movie but I will be real, 3 hours is a tall order for me and I don't want to sit through another Watchmen- Ultimate Cut.
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I just finished the book and am pretty interested in the adaptation because I heard there’s a couple of big differences between the two.
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ruddiger posted:I just finished the book and am pretty interested in the adaptation because I heard there’s a couple of big differences between the two. The purpose of The Overlook is waaayyyyyy different and it becomes more if a sequel to the movie than the book in the movie once they go there. and ends like The Shining novel
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I sorta like how while in Kubrick's The Shining almost nothing is explained and aside from one moment nothing is explicitly supernatural in Doctor Sleep: The Movie everything is explained so much and presented so casually that it feels more like a fantasy movie than a horror film.
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Jan 22, 2020 02:33
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It definitely felt like horror fantasy. I liked the theatrical well enough to maybe check out the DC. I just wish Flanagan had some style.
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Jan 22, 2020 03:03
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The Color Out of Space is easily the best looking best acted Lovecraft film ever made and if we get a trilogy that would be amazing.
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Jan 22, 2020 05:25
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The only thing that kinda annoys me about it is in the story the color can't be described because it's so goddamn alien, but in the movie it's just purple. Haven't seen the movie yet though, just the previews.
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Jan 22, 2020 05:31
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:The only thing that kinda annoys me about it is in the story the color can't be described because it's so goddamn alien, but in the movie it's just purple. You gotta make compromises when adapting Lovecraft because he describes things you can't film.
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Jan 22, 2020 05:47
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Also it's really more of a pink/mauve. Mandy used the same color to good effect. tCOoS was just very lush, very pretty, which contrasted well with the horrible things that were happening.
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Jan 22, 2020 05:54
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flashy_mcflash posted:I'm 99% in agreement but this was a case where he was legitimately distracting from source material I was interested in. I thought Cage getting more Cagey as the film went on worked well.
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Jan 22, 2020 06:11
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Yea but I figured it'd be some sort of rainbow iridescent constantly changing color, not just WAKANDA PURPLE everywhere.
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Jan 22, 2020 06:13
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:The only thing that kinda annoys me about it is in the story the color can't be described because it's so goddamn alien, but in the movie it's just purple. It would actually be possible for Stanley to show us "chimerical colours" by fatiguing the viewer's eyes with a 30 second monochrome shot, but then we'd be Lovecraftian cultists.
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Jan 22, 2020 06:26
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I hope Stanley shoots a movie based on a former Coldplay hit starring an Elvis impersonator. Call it "The King in, 'Yellow'"
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Jan 22, 2020 06:37
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Halloween Jack posted:What, you want them to invent new colours? Wait, you aren't? But yea, as I mentioned, chromed out ever shifting iridescent rainbow colors or something would work, at least that's how I always pictured it in my head.
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Jan 22, 2020 06:53
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Wait, you aren't? Reminds me of Lord of the Rings, where in the book Saruman's heel turn is accompanied by him calling himself 'Saruman the Colourful' or some such and donning a cloak coloured like you describe. We were robbed of Rainbow Christopher Lee, y'all.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:The only thing that kinda annoys me about it is in the story the color can't be described because it's so goddamn alien, but in the movie it's just purple. I went to a Q&A for the movie and Stanley said the idea was not that it was actually purple, but that the color is at the end of human perception, like it's after ultraviolet and infrared. In the movie the characters talk about how the color is somewhere beyond purple (as in, you the audience aren't able to see everything the characters are seeing).
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Jan 22, 2020 07:03
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Relevant Tangent posted:Also it's really more of a pink/mauve. Mandy used the same color to good effect. tCOoS was just very lush, very pretty, which contrasted well with the horrible things that were happening. Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Yea but I figured it'd be some sort of rainbow iridescent constantly changing color, not just WAKANDA PURPLE everywhere. The 2012 film handled this with the film being in black and white, except for the Color being a shifting purple/pink that did feel a bit off on the eyeballs after being so used to the black and white. I did enjoy this one and it's a free streamer on Prime.
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Grendels Dad posted:Reminds me of Lord of the Rings, where in the book Saruman's heel turn is accompanied by him calling himself 'Saruman the Colourful' or some such and donning a cloak coloured like you describe. Saruman of Many Colours is the name he takes, and he doesn't change his cloak - Gandalf just realises that Saruman’s robe is not white, but all colours shimmering. Which is a neat nod to Saruman’s turn towards science, because white light is a combination of all colours.
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Jan 22, 2020 13:23
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Relevant Tangent posted:The Color Out of Space is easily the best looking best acted Lovecraft film ever made and if we get a trilogy that would be amazing. Real talk, though: Have you seen Stuart Gordon's From Beyond?
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:But yea, as I mentioned, chromed out ever shifting iridescent rainbow colors or something would work, at least that's how I always pictured it in my head. I always pictured it as like a pale grey/green because I was like 17 the last time I read it.
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If anyone can somehow answer this I’ll Venmo them 10 dollars. There was a movie I saw when I was a kid (early 90s) and it's something like a teenaged dude becomes a zombie but mostly keeps his mind. The only scene I remember is another student tries to kill him with an axe but he hits his own head when he pulls back and dies. And then I think the zombie dude bends down out of frame and eats him a little bit. That's literally the only thing I remember about it. Anyone somehow know what it’s called?
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Null of Undefined posted:If anyone can somehow answer this I’ll Venmo them 10 dollars. My Boyfriend's Back, directed by Bob Balaban. Fun Fact: The bully that gets the axe in the head is a young Philip Seymour Hoffman. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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Franchescanado posted:My Boyfriend's Back, directed by Bob Balaban. You’re right! Awesome! PM me your Venmo
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Jan 22, 2020 15:03
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Null of Undefined posted:You’re right! Awesome! PM me your Venmo Nah, don't worry about it. Just happy to help. If you wanna spend money, donate $10 to Australian Fire Relief, RAINN or a local animal shelter or other cause you believe in.
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Relevant Tangent posted:The Color Out of Space is easily the best looking best acted Lovecraft film ever made and if we get a trilogy that would be amazing. As Fran pointed out, this is some very very high praise. I'll reserve judgement until I've seen the movie.
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Basebf555 posted:As Fran pointed out, this is some very very high praise. I'll reserve judgement until I've seen the movie. Yeah, I'm seeing it tonight and trying to go in with a neutral mindset so as not to be disappointed. "Best Lovecraft Adaptation" is high praise and a tall order to fulfill.
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Franchescanado posted:Yeah, I'm seeing it tonight and trying to go in with a neutral mindset so as not to be disappointed. "Best Lovecraft Adaptation" is high praise and a tall order to fulfill. Have you all forgotten about a little film called Re-Animator?
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Iron Crowned posted:Have you all forgotten about a little film called Re-Animator? Not at all, it's easily the 2nd best after From Beyond. 
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Franchescanado posted:Yeah, I'm seeing it tonight and trying to go in with a neutral mindset so as not to be disappointed. "Best Lovecraft Adaptation" is high praise and a tall order to fulfill. "Best looking, best acted" they said, not "best adaptation". I agree with best looking and best acted.
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COOL CORN posted:"Best looking, best acted" they said, not "best adaptation". Still gonna have to be extremely good to top From Beyond. From Beyond is really good looking and has two excellent lead performances. In fact, From Beyond probably would be disqualified from a "best adaptation" award just because it's barely an adaptation at all. Iron Crowned posted:Have you all forgotten about a little film called Re-Animator? It's real good but not as good as From Beyond.
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Basebf555 posted:Still gonna have to be extremely good to top From Beyond. From Beyond is really good looking and has two excellent lead performances. Yeah. The whole first scene of the film is the entirety of the short story, give or take a screaming old lady and a mini-poodle.
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Did they ever make an adaption of the one where the guy turned out to be dead cause his ac broke and he melted? Or the guy with the violin from space? Oh, or that one where the family curse turned out to be some old guy just straight up murdering people instead of ghosts and poo poo? I loved those stories. The only one better was the "OH NO MY GREAT GRANPA hosed AN APE, I MUST KILL MYSELF" but I don't really see that being made into an adaption. Admittedly it's been a while since I read any of them though so the deets might be wrong a bit.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Or the guy with the violin from space? Like, a good one? Yes. Lovecraft is public domain and well-known and leaves a lot of wiggle room with creativity despite budget, so he's very popular for film students and young filmmakers to make adaptations. So pretty much every story has multiple adaptations of varying quality. They're not all good, but there are some excellent ones. This is a stop-motion animated adaptation of From Beyond that I think is pretty neat. I really like Pickman's Model, and sadly that doesn't have any good adaptations that I've seen. There are some that get close to being good, but are weighed down too much by their flaws.
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Franchescanado posted:Not at all, it's easily the 2nd best after From Beyond. Oh, so sorry, but the answer we are looking for is Bride of Re-Animator.
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MacheteZombie posted:Oh, so sorry, but the answer we are looking for is Bride of Re-Animator. Ouch ouch ouch. Burned myself on that hot take! (edit: Never seen it.  )
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I'm not really even looking for Best Lovecraft Ever, I'll be perfectly happy with Color Out of Space if it's on the same level as The Resurrected or Necronomicon.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:
Especially since it's just a really thinly veiled allegory for the horrors of race mixing. Same for Shadow Over Innsmouth.
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Franchescanado posted:Like, a good one? Yes. I recently discovered that the BBC has a Podcast, re-imagining some Lovecraft. I listened to Whisperer in Darkness first because I'm a dummy, so now I'm going back to The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Basically they re-imagined it as an investigative podcast, set in modern England, and I though Whisperer was pretty good for drives home. My only complaint was that I didn't feel like it stuck the landing on the last episode, but that can be said of a lot of Lovecraft IMHO. There was a hint that the 3rd series would be based on The Shadow over Innsmouth.
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I really want a short adaptation of The Music of Erich Zann That was a cool story
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